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Bukhakpa
Bukhakpa (북학파) was a late Joseon Korean scholarly current, including Hong Dae-yong, Park Ji-won, and Park Je-ga, that advocated adopting Qing learning and institutions to reform Joseon.
Bukhar Khudahs
The Bukhar Khudahs were the native Sogdian dynasty that ruled the oasis of Bukhara in the Zarafshan valley until its Arab conquest in the early 8th century.
Bukhara Revolution
The Bukhara Revolution was the 1920 overthrow of the Emirate of Bukhara by Young Bukharans, communists, and the Red Army, which replaced the emirate with the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic.
Bukhara slave trade
Bukhara slave trade: the traffic in enslaved people centered on the Emirate of Bukhara, a principal Central Asian slave market from medieval times to the late 19th century, supplied mainly by Turkmen raids on Iranian Shi'ites and ended under the Russian protectorate.
Bukharan Jews
Bukharan Jews, also called Bukharian Jews, are the Jews of Central Asia whose native language is Judeo-Tajik, or Bukhori; most now live in Israel and New York.
Bukharan People's Soviet Republic
The Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was a Central Asian state from 1920 to 1924, established on the former Emirate of Bukhara after the Red Army overthrew Emir Alim Khan.
Bukharinism
Bukharinism is the political-economic tendency of Nikolai Bukharin, favoring continued NEP market mechanisms, a worker-peasant alliance, and gradual industrialization. It defines the Soviet Right Opposition of 1928-1929 against Stalin's collectivization turn.
Bukhtishu II
Bukhtishu II (بختيشوع) was a Nestorian physician of the Bukhtishu family of Jundishapur who served the Abbasid caliphs at Baghdad, was exiled by al-Mutawakkil, and died in 870.
Bukin
Bukin (북인, 北人; "Northerners") was a hard-line political faction of Korea's Joseon dynasty, dominant under King Gwanghaegun from 1608 until its fall in the 1623 Injo Restoration.
Bukit Ho Swee fire
The Bukit Ho Swee fire swept through a Singapore squatter settlement on 25 May 1961, burning 100 acres and leaving nearly 16,000 homeless; the rehousing that followed launched Singapore's first large-scale public housing project.
Bukit Kepong incident
The Bukit Kepong incident was a 1950 attack in which Malayan Communist Party guerrillas besieged and burned a remote police station on the Muar river in Johor, killing 25.
Bukka I
Bukka I (बुक्क) was a Vijayanagara emperor who reigned from 1356 to 1377, succeeding his brother Harihara I, warring with the Bahmani sultanate, and directing the 1371 conquest that destroyed the Madura Sultanate.
Bukola Saraki
Bukola Saraki (Olubukola Abubakar Saraki), Nigerian doctor, banker, and politician; Governor of Kwara State 2003–2011, Senator for Kwara Central 2011, and President of the Nigerian Senate 2015–2019.
Bukovinian State Medical University
Bukovinian State Medical University (Буковинський державний медичний університет, BSMU) is a public medical university in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, founded 1944 from the relocated 2nd Kyiv Medical Institute; ranked 5th among Ukrainian medical universities in Top-200 Ukraine 2024.
Bulala invasion of Kanem
The Bulala invasion of Kanem was the late 14th-century campaign in which the Bulala expelled the Sayfawa dynasty from Kanem, forcing its court west of Lake Chad to Bornu.
Bulan
Bulan, also spelled Bolan, was a king of the Khazar Khaganate who abandoned paganism and adopted Judaism, traditionally around 740, known through the Khazar Correspondence.
Bulangan sa Catarman
Bulangan sa Catarman is a cockfighting venue (bulangan, Waray for cockpit) in Catarman, Northern Samar, tagged as a casino in OpenStreetMap near Molave quarter, PSA office, and Catarman-Calbayog Road.
Bulaq Press
The Bulaq Press (مطبعة بولاق) was Egypt's government printing house, founded by Muhammad Ali Pasha at Cairo's Bulaq port in 1820, printing textbooks, codes, and the state gazette.
Bularchus
Bularchus (Greek Boularchos) is a painter of Lydia known only from Pliny, who says King Candaules paid its weight in gold for his battle picture.
Bulavin Rebellion
The Bulavin Rebellion (Булавинское восстание) was a Cossack and peasant rising against Peter the Great on the Don River from 1707 to 1708, led by Kondraty Bulavin.
Bülent Ecevit
Bülent Ecevit (1925–2006) was a Turkish journalist, poet, and politician, four-time prime minister (1974, 1977, 1978–79, 1999–2002), CHP leader from 1972, and founder-era leader of the Democratic Left Party; led the 1974 Cyprus operation.
Bulgaria during World War I
Bulgaria in World War I: the Tsardom of Bulgaria (Kingdom of Bulgaria), which joined the Central Powers in October 1915 to reverse the Second Balkan War settlement, fought on the Macedonian Front until the Dobro Pole breakthrough and the Armistice of Salonika of 29 September 1918.
Bulgaria–Romania relations
Bulgaria–Romania relations: bilateral ties between two lower-Danube, Black Sea neighbours; 1879 diplomatic relations, 1940 Treaty of Craiova, 1992 friendship treaty, joint NATO 2004 and EU 2007 accession, 2023 strategic partnership, 9.71 billion euro 2024 trade.
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Bulgarska akademiya na naukite, BAS/BAN), Bulgaria's national autonomous research organization, founded 1869 in Braila as the Bulgarian Literary Society, renamed 1911, headquartered in Sofia with nine research divisions.
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union
The Bulgarian Agrarian National Union (Bulgarian: Български земеделски народен съюз, BZNS) was a peasant party founded in 1899 that ruled Bulgaria under Aleksandŭr Stamboliyski from 1919 to 1923.
Bulgarian agrarian reform of 1921
A 1921 Bulgarian land redistribution law passed under Aleksandar Stamboliyski's agrarian government, capping private landholdings and transferring surplus, state, and monastery land to landless peasants.
Bulgarian Air Force
Bulgarian Air Force (Военновъздушни сили), Bulgaria's air warfare branch and NATO member since 2004; flies MiG-29 air policing and is replacing Soviet jets with F-16 Block 70s delivered from April 2025.
Bulgarian alphabet
The Bulgarian alphabet is a 30-letter Cyrillic script used for Bulgarian, a South Slavic language spoken by roughly 12 million people. It marks the 45 sounds of the language.
Bulgarian Communist Party
The Bulgarian Communist Party (БКП) was the communist party that ruled the People's Republic of Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989, becoming the Bulgarian Socialist Party in 1990.
Bulgarian coup d'état of 1886
The Bulgarian coup d'état of 1886 was the seizure of Prince Alexander I of Battenberg by pro-Russian Bulgarian officers on 9 August, reversed days later by a loyalist counter-coup led by Stefan Stambolov.